176. RomComs, True Love, and Fake Podcasts, Or Kevin Goes To The Dark Side

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Remember that one time someone left out a petri dish and it got all moldy and they ended up discovering penicillin? This episode is like that, but instead Kevin turned a great idea into moldy garbage... But, in an effort at full disclosure, he explains why it's garbage and why he did what he did. Bad Kevin...

Anyways, the idea behind this episode is a Valentines Day/RomCom recommendation episode. And so, in keeping with THAT part of the episode, Kevin asked the whole APNC team, including newcomer Lauren, what their favorite RomComs are. They came in as follows:

Andy - Say Anything Jen and Kim - Crazy Stupid Love Andrew - Just Friends Lauren - Bridget Jones Diary Kevin - Failure to Launch

If you take nothing else away from this episode, please take away that these are all fun movies. Great RomComs for you to watch whether you are spending V-Day alone or with someone you love (or hate?).

Now, for the episode itself... Let's be honest, it's a mess. But Kevin owns up to that in the introduction before the introduction. That will make sense if you watch... As it stands, Kevins regular hosting partner Andrew was out, funny enough, for an early Valentines Day celebration, leaving Kevin to himself. Rather than miss a week, he decided to record an episode and even polled the crew a few days prior to recording. That's called planning!

The day of recording, he came down very under the weather and, again, so as to not miss a week of the show, he scrambled to work the episode out. In his foggy brained state, he ended up asking AI to generate the script for the podcast episode, something he has railed against as long as AI has been brought up on the show.

Now, what he asked for was a witty 30 minute episode comparing and contrasting the 5 films listed above. What he got lacked wit almost entirely, didn't compare the films at all, and wasn't even close to 30 minutes in length. Now, as if to prove his own idiocy, he decided to double down on the AI and ask for another 8 minute segment on RomCom tropes. As you may guess, that was garbage, too.

As the episode goes on, he goes more and more "off book" in attempt to save the episode, but it's pretty bad overall. So this episode serves more as a cautionary tale than anything else. AI for anything creative is just bad. Don't do it. We here at APNC apologize for what was made here this week, but Andrew should be back to save the day next time.

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